area_spider_plot( data, plotArea )

Plot data in a circular spider (radar) plot either as lines or as shaded area.
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Updated 29 May 2018

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Adapted from https://de.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/33134-radar-plot?focused=5201638&tab=function

This function plots a spider plot using the columns of P as datapoints.
Inputs:
P : the data as matrix.
optional: a boolean value to indicate whether to plot the data as area or as line plot.
Example usage:
area_spider_plot(P): plots data as line plot
area_spider_plot(P, true): plots data as area plot

legendchoices = {'data1', 'data2', 'data3'};

figure('rend', 'painters', 'pos', [100,100, 1000,800])
idx = area_spider_plot(data);
legend(legendchoices{idx});

Cite As

Sarah Blum (2026). area_spider_plot( data, plotArea ) (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/67524-area_spider_plot-data-plotarea), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

MATLAB Release Compatibility
Created with R2016a
Compatible with any release
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Acknowledgements

Inspired by: Radar plot

Version Published Release Notes
1.1.0.0

changed the indices of the legend entries to match the possibly resorted areas

1.0.0.0

added picture
changed description and title